Friday’s Headlines: Cautionary Tale Edition

For all you New Yorkers who don't have a driver's license, here's a sad story sent over by a Friend of Streetsblog, who requested anonymity to share his bizarre personal story:

We followed up with our friend, and was told he's still being ill-served by the bank. Here's hoping the legal eagles figure it all out. In the meantime, click here for information about the city's ID card for non-drivers.

In other news:

• The killing of Jordan Neely — and the failure of cops to arrest the killer — continued to dominate the headlines:
  • The Post played up the "war of words" between 100-percent correct Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Mayor Adams. The tabloid also revealed that we know the name of the "ex-Marine's" lawyer, even if we don't know the killer's name yet.
  • The Post offered an opinion piece trafficking in hyperbole from the very first sentence: "Before going any further let’s just say what every New Yorker knows. The city’s subway is unsafe. Every New Yorker knows it."
  • The amNY headline seemed to convey what many are feeling: that Mayor Adams is not showing the leadership he should be.
  • The Times tried to recover from its original day's story by asking the obvious question: "No Arrest in New York Subway Chokehold Death, and Many Want to Know Why." But the paper failed — suggesting that the killing has "divided" New Yorkers. Has it? Doesn't literally every single New Yorker think the killing is an abomination?
  • Gothamist looked at what charges should be forthcoming. Easy answer: murder. Let the jury sort it out after.
  • Gothamist also did a particular insightful "rider reaction" story — and riders were horrified at the behavior of the killer. Take that, NY Times.
  • David Meyer of Streetsblog made it clear how Andrew Cuomo, Eric Adams and Gov. Hochul have planted the seeds of this week's killing.
  • And, finally, the Onion did what it does best: a perfect satire of Mayor Adams. (Hell Gate did the non-parody version.)
• Speaking of the Times, the paper seemed to want to see Council Member Justin Brannan's proposal that the rich should pay more for parking tickets as some kind of metaphor.
• Welcome to the war to save transit, Politico.
• Speaking of transit, amNY had the details of some increase in service (but we had a big story about the expansion of the City Ticket, so that's nice, too).
• It's MTA boss vs. MTA boss over the Penn Station plan. (Crain's)
• To save the MTA, how about a carbon tax, Friend of Streetsblog Charles Komanoff argues in a persuasive Gotham Gazette op-ed.
• MTA service alerts are back on Twitter after Elon Musk blinked. (NYDN, NY Post, amNY, Gothamist)
• Carnage in Long Island. (NY Post)
• Here's another victim of last month's garage collapse in Lower Manhattan. (Tribeca Citizen)
• Meet the man who is the exact opposite of our old man editor — a guy committing real criminal mischief in Atlanta. (Fox5)
• And finally, from the assignment desk, Queens Council Member Tiffany Caban, Assembly Member Zohran Mamdani and state Sen. Jessica Gonzalez-Rojas will be on the 31st Avenue open street (at a 33rd Street) in Astoria on Sunday at 3 p.m. to push people to fill out the Department of Transportation's survey of the neighborhood, which is here.